On April 20, 2010, 41 miles southeast of the Louisiana Coast, the worst oil disaster in U.S. history struck. It was a human-made disaster not a natural one. The offshore oil rig known as Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean under contract with British Petroleum (BP) with Halliburton also involved, was not properly built and engineered to withstand the forces created when a drill is driven 3.5 miles deep into the sea. The catastrophe took the lives of 11 men. After 87 days,